When the S.E.C. deposed him earlier this year, Mr. Martoma refused to answer questions, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
During the same hearing, Mr Duncan declined to answer questions, invoking the fifth amendment right to not incriminate himself.
Ms. O'Brien left the hearing shortly after saying she would decline to answer questions, invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Senior executives Thomas Catan and Peter Fritsch spoke behind closed doors Wednesday morning but refused to answer questions, invoking the First Amendment and their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.
At the hearing yesterday, Ms. Stewart's lawyers said one witness, Douglas Faneuil, refused to answer their questions, invoking his right against self-incrimination.
Bernard J. Ebbers, WorldCom's former chief executive, outraged some members of the House Financial Services Committee by saying he had done nothing wrong but then refusing to answer any questions, invoking his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination.
Most of the questions invoke symptoms that are so general that they could apply to many men who are clinically depressed or simply having a bad day — or even to women, says Dr. Adriane J. Fugh-Berman, an associate professor at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington.
Many theoretical proposals for answering these questions invoke new principles in physics, such as the existence of additional dimensions of space or a "supersymmetry" between the constituents of matter and the forces between them, and we will discover whether these ideas are useful for physics.
Yesterday the House Oversight Committee tried to question the GSA official, Jeff Neely, who organized the conference, but Neely repeatedly refused to answer questions, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
In November 1989, Keating was subpoenaed to testify before the House Banking Committee, but refused to answer questions, invoking his right against self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment.
